Give MLS a B+.

That's the word from the Racial and Gender Report Card produced by Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida's DeVos Sports Business Management Program. See the PDF.

MLS earned an A for racial hiring, C+ in gender hiring and A+ for diversity initiatives.

In 2003, MLS received an F for gender.

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Several articles of interest re football finances in general; not re QPR, specific.

Paul Wilson/Guardian Blog - first-class average but Championship isn't fourth
We are told that the Championship is the fourth biggest league in Europe, but it is not even the most popular second division

The bigger and more often-repeated the lie, the more likely it is to be believed. Click to continue reading...

There may have been only a few people who bothered to read all the way through the comments on my post about Toronto fans at the MLS All-Star Game. One major point of contention was whether or not very many people were actually watching the exhibition match (the implication being that it didn't matter how the fans behaved because few saw it). Click to continue reading...

Building a soccer stadium hasn't been easy in most MLS cities, and the situation has dragged on for a quite a while in Washington despite the presence of a successful team embraced by the community.

But D.C. United president Kevin Payne says no one should be alarmed by a recent Washington Business Journal report suggesting stadium talks could be hindered by layoffs at team owner Victor MacFarlane's company.

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Lists are made to generate debate on a topic and the recently released 100 most powerful people in the sports world is sure to do so. At the top of the list are the normal cast of characters: Tigers Woods, Roger Goodall, David Stern and George Bodenheimer. But one sports appears to be left off the list: Soccer.

If there is a list of the top 100 power brokers in sports why does it not acknowledge soccer in particular, the English Premier League.

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